escalier

From Middle French escallier, borrowed (through written form) from Occitan escalier, from Late Latin scālārium (attested in some inscriptions), from substantivation of a plural of scālāris, from Latin scāla (“ladder”), with the locative suffix -ārium. Replaced the older French degrés and montée in this sense.

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.ka.lje/

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escalier m (plural escaliers)

1. step, stair
2. staircase

escaliers

1. stairs

• cage d'escalier
• esprit de l'escalier

• “escalier” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• cèlerais
• cisèlera
• éclaires, éclairés